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    • SPECIAL ISSUE—THE ARCHIVAL CITY
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    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
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    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
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    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
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SLAG GLASS CITY logoSLAG GLASS CITY logo
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—THE ARCHIVAL CITY
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Rant & Remedy

What is your bread and where are your roses?

Empty car intersection under a metro track.

Keeping My Distance

Field Hospital

Two cars on a lawn with a faded picture of weeds and grass in the foreground.

Density: Detroit Double Exposures

There is a building of metal sheeting and a train car alongside a train track. On the right, there are buildings in the distance, covered mostly by trees. There is snow on the ground.

Ten Crossings in the Midwestern Borderlands

The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet

A side of a storefront. On the left is a fancy clothing store, while the brick wall and garage door to the right is covered in colorful graffiti, with the words “Gentrify This” in the center of the art.

Urban Excursions in the Gentrifying City

A balcony view of the lower level of a deserted mall, with fluorescent lights illuminating the diner-style tiles and a single gumball machine..

You Are Not What You Used To Be

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